Dear ABOL community & all interested people,
we would like to remind you that this years´ABOL meeting takes place on 20th and 21st of October in the Natural History Museum Vienna. We will look back at the past 3 years of the initial phase and especially look forward to the future of the ABOL-Initiative.… Read more
Dear all
Pete Hollingworth of the Royal Botanical Garden in Edinburgh is organizing a Meeting on “Sequencing Natural History specimens using NGS”.
It will take place on Tuesday 11th July 2017 with many reknown speakers from various DNA-Barcoding initiatives.
The Meeting is free – registrition is open till 05th of July.… Read more
Dear ABOL community,
this year´s ABOL meeting will take place on 20th and 21st of October 2017 at the Natural History Museum Vienna. The meeting marks the transition from the pilot phase to the overall project.
Please save the date! Further information will be given in time.… Read more
For all of you who are familiar with social media, we recently initiated a facebook page for ABOL!
https://www.facebook.com/AustrianBarcodeOfLife/
We cordially invite you to contribute and comment frequently. We aim at announcing news about ABOL, along with other postings of general relevance for biodiversity.
Enjoy our page!… Read more
With March 1st the HRSM (Hochschulraumstrukturmittel) project has been launched. The project is funded with 1 Million Euro by the Ministry of Science, Research and Economy and aims at developing DNA barcoding pipelines for ABOL at universities. Commendably, the University of Graz has taken the leadership.… Read more
Dear ABOL community,
it is about time, to announce many new projects which have been launched recently!
In butterflies, the showcase group of ABOL, four new projects have been initiated. Two of them, “Butterflies of Vorarlberg” and “Nocturnal butterflies of the Koblacher Ried” address the lepidopteran fauna of the most western Austrian province, Vorarlberg.… Read more
Dear ABOL community,
this year again our ABOL meeting took place at the Schlossmuseum Linz – we would like to thank the people from the Upper Austrian State Museums for hosting! We are very happy, that so many of you joined the meeting. A special thank to all the speakers for the interesting talks concerning this year’s main topic “Applied aspects of DNA barcoding”.… Read more
A fascinating recent publication deals with the potential of species delimitation in Lepidoptera via CO1. An international cooperation, with the participation of experts from the Tyrolean State Museums, could show that DNA barcoding is an efficient approach to determine the vast majority of European Lepidoptera.
Every determination is eased by reciprocal monophyly between species.… Read more
As representatives of a DNA-Barcoding-Initiative in Austria we are often asked for the value of barcoding Austrian individuals in species where DNA-Barcodes from other countries are available. The best answer is given by two papers on moths, recently published by the team around Peter Huemer at the Tiroler Landesmuseum.… Read more
Dear supporters of ABOL!
Complementing our current projects on fungi and animals we are happy to announce the start of two associated projects on DNA-barcoding in plants.
A project at the University of Salzburg, headed by Andreas Tribsch, generates DNA barcodes in spring gentians, a morphologically challenging group.… Read more
M. SonnleitnerABOL BioBlitz in the Hohen Tauern8. August, 2024 - 14:55The last ABOL BioBlitz 2024 during the Days of Biodiversity took place on the first weekend in August in the Hohe Tauern National Park. In almost traditionally bad weather, around 75 experts swarmed out to record biodiversity in the Habachtal in the Salzburg part of the Hohe Tauern National Park.… Read more
M. SonnleitnerGEO Day of Biodiversity in South Carinthia17. July, 2024 - 15:04On the first weekend in July, the ABOL-BioBlitz was a guest at the GEO Day of Biodiversity in the Geopark Karawanken, this year for the first time in southern Carinthia. After the welcome and introductory words in Bleiburg, the Globasnitzbachtal was investigated in the afternoon and evening of the first day.… Read more
N. Fial10 years ÖEG insect camp17. July, 2024 - 11:09Parallel to the Day of Biodiversity in the Biosphere Reserve Wienerwald, ABOL was represented for the third time at the ÖEG insect camp from June 6th to 9th. Like ABOL, the insect camp also celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, and this year it took place in the Karwendel Nature Reserve in Tyrol.… Read more